OSHA Inspection: SKYPE CONSTRUCTION OF NY

Issued

Jan 31, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:    On or about August 8, 2012-Job Site at 34-33 43rd Street Long Island City, NY 11101     a) Employees 30-feet below workers installing bricks on tubuler welded frame scaffold without hardhats.    WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Jan 31, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):    On or about August 8, 2012-Job Site at 34-33 43rd Street Long Island City, NY 11101    a) Employees standing on 19-inch scaffold planks leaving 34-inches unplanked at a height of up to 30-feet.    WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Jan 31, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet (0.6 m) above or below a point of access, portable ladders, hook-on ladders, attachable ladders, stair towers (scaffold stairways/towers), stairway-type ladders (such as ladder stands), ramps, walkways, integral prefabricated scaffold access, or direct access from other scaffold, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:    On or about August 9, 2012-Job Site at 34-33 43rd Street Long Island City, NY 11101     a) Employees climbing tubuler welded frame scaffold to a height of 30-feet.    WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.